John Calvin
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John Calvin (1509 – 1564) Protestant theologian and founder of Calvinism.
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- The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.
- Institutes, III, xix, 2
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On Martin Luther
- If this specimen of overbearing tyranny has sprung forth already, as the early blossom in the springtide of a reviving Church, what must we expect in a short time, when affairs have fallen into a far worse condition?
- Letter to Philipp Melanchthon, June 28, 1545--Letters of John Calvin, Selected from the Jules Bonnet edition, (Carlisle,Pennsylvania:the Banner of Truth Trust, 1980),p.74. ISBN 0851513239 [1]
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On the Government of Women
- ...God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church (Isaiah 49:23)[2].... Letter to William Cecil, May 1559.Ibid,p.212
